Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is out in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion...
...American public has been duped by this august body and the novel of half-truths and suppressed conclusions it presented. If half of the points that Mark Lane brings up in his book Rush to Judgment are valid questions and criticisms about the investigation, then the American public needs to take another look at the findings of the Warren Commission...
...Your review of Malamud's The Fixer [Sept. 9] focuses its critical beam upon a nonexistent work: the "contemporary American" novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is nothing more contemporary than Malamud's theme; that of identity. Within the "innocent-guilty" framework is embedded the hard, solid nut of Yakov's stubbornness: I am what I know is true. Malamud speaks for contemporary Americans as well as for one Russian Jew. Man's inner quantum...
...most comfortable house I have ever been in in my life," "the most uncomfortable interval of my life," "the most grown-up boy of around my age I had ever met"-and with synthetic velocity: "Suddenly, another letter came," "Suddenly I knew." Loyal readers will suddenly feel that this novel is not O'Connor at his best...
Delano, California, is 30 miles and 30 years away from the run-down migrant labor camp described in John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." It seems a lot closer...